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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    #31
    Originally posted by DHC View Post
    Childish in what sense Faust? The diluted and didactic delivery of the fundamental premise or the "conspiracy theory" in general?
    Well, the whole treatment of 9/11 was BS, and the entire astrology masturbation on the origins of the Western religion seemed pointless, and I kinda stopped watching after that. I don't doubt that the world is run by very powerful parties with vast vested interests, but there are more serious films and books that are devoted to that subject. I am reading one right now, Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. While this books is not without a bit of far fetched theory, the sheer amount of research is mind boggling and eye-opening.
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    • Canaduh0415
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2008
      • 145

      #32
      Agree that Naomi is wonderful, have read the bool and watched the documentary....is it not a smaller part of the the whole?...I think you may like Alan Watt "Cutting through the Matrix"..on itunes or website, read Tragedy and Hope if you have the chance, Carrol Quigley, historian for CFR.....
      It has been a very difficult year

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      • mamaboy
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2008
        • 415

        #33
        grey gardens...of course ,,,,,how can i forget
        but what started out as business has quickley turned to pleasure

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        • Faust
          kitsch killer
          • Sep 2006
          • 37852

          #34
          Originally posted by Silver View Post
          Not sure if you can find it online/dvd etc.. but Robert Hughes Documentry 'The cure of the mona lisa' was the best thing i've seen a ages.. a scathing attack on how tacky and souless modern art has become.

          Small clip.... http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/852457
          Just watched this. It's really good. Hughes is the man, I don't give a shit what people in the art world say about him. Now, I need something to turn .avi file into something I can play on a DVD and show this to my class.
          Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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          • destroyed
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2006
            • 159

            #35
            The Art of Failure is an interesting look at Chuck Connelly's life and work. The East Oak Lane neighborhood in Philly is like another character in the documentary; I lived in this neighborhood for a number of years, I reckon, maybe only a few blocks from where Connelly lives. If my head was in the right place, I would have loved to play the role of Fred Scaboda---I think I could have pulled it off.
            broken mirror, white terror

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            • weezlose
              Junior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 27

              #36
              i thought the art of failure was horribly done.

              i barely made it through it, which was lame because i was out of the country when it was on iCONTROL, so i had to wait around to finally catch it on hbo.

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              • destroyed
                Senior Member
                • Nov 2006
                • 159

                #37
                i kinda agree that it was horribly done, but it suited the subject, i think.
                broken mirror, white terror

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                • Fade to Black
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2008
                  • 5340

                  #38
                  I watched whatever was available of 1972 Rolling Stones doc Cocksucker Blues at last, today. It was better than Shine a Light, that's for sure...kinda tedious watch, if anything I think it gives a good portrayal of the massive boredom that surrounds a rock star's life when he's not on stage. Whole thing is like watching a blurry trip.
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                  let me show you a few thangs

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                  • destroyed
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2006
                    • 159

                    #39
                    I love Cocksucker Blues.
                    Being in a hugely successful touring band is my worst nightmare.
                    That doc confirms my fears.
                    broken mirror, white terror

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                    • mass
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 1131

                      #40
                      i finally got around to getting a copy of antonioni's documentary on china... which they commissioned and subsequently banned because they felt it was too negative. haha... i did a quick skim-through and it looks really good. has anyone seen it?

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                      • Fade to Black
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2008
                        • 5340

                        #41
                        mass i wasn't even aware that project even existed....how does one go about acquiring this
                        www.matthewhk.net

                        let me show you a few thangs

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                        • Nikov
                          Senior Member
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 385

                          #42
                          Originally posted by weezlose View Post
                          -when we were kings (one of my favorite docs ever)
                          -grey gardens (obv)
                          -signe chanel (a fun film chronicling the haute couture seamstresses that are employed by chanel and the duration of working on a collection, which i think can still be seen on youtube)-capturing the friedmans (about a jewish family where the father/son are charged with child pornography)
                          -piece by piece (covers graffitti in san francisco)
                          -ganja queen (new zealand woman who was convicted of having a load of weed in her bag at an airport in indonesia and has let to be released)
                          funny you mention this one cause i just saw it on youtube a few weeks back

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                          • Acéphale
                            Senior Member
                            • Apr 2010
                            • 444

                            #43


                            ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

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                            • casem
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 2590

                              #44
                              For some reason it came up in conversation yesterday that I had seen the movie "Zoo" at the IFC a few years ago, a documentary about a man who was literally fucked to death by a horse.

                              There's no graphic depictions and in fact I found the movie rather hypnotic and oddly soothing as it mostly consisted of slow moving shots of wide open country overlayed with the audio from interviews of friends/participants of the man who died recounting the story. I thought this juxtaposition was rather artful and allowed the story to be told without judgement.
                              music

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                              • darkbydesign
                                Senior Member
                                • Sep 2010
                                • 817

                                #45
                                Yeah, Zoo is actually a pretty damn good film. Really interesting people in the film and done quite well. Not some sensationalized "Mr. Hands" parody, but more the story behind his life.

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